The Press: Catholic Campaign

On Sept. 11, Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News printed an item saying
that a Roman Catholic priest with a woman companion had pleaded guilty,
in a Medera, Calif. court, to drunken driving. Other San Francisco
papers passed up the story.

When a News reporter called Monsignor Harold E. Collins, secretary to
San Francisco's Archbishop John J. Mitty, to check the spelling of the
priest's name, the Monsignor said: "No one in San Francisco has ever
used a story like that."